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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDGAR KELSEY, OF SOUTH LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 514,194, dated February 6, 1894.

Application tiled July 29, 1893.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDGAR KELSEY, of South Lancaster, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Copy-Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which Figure l represents a plan of my improved copy-holder, adapted to the use of typewriters. Fig. 2 is a front side view thereof, showing clamp by which it may be attached to type-Writing machines. Fig. 3 is an end view of the holder, with its supporting bracket removed, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 4 shows the holder applied to a board or tablet, and adapted for general ofce use. Fig 5 is a similar view to Fig. 2, showing the holder adapted for type-Setters use, the supporting arm being broken off at a short distance from said holder, and Fig. 6 is a transverse section through the holder and part of a printers case, showing how said holder is applied to use for type-Setters.

My invention relates to devices for holding and tracing original, or other copy, from which a type-writer, or other copy is to be made, and for holding and tracing the copy in type-setting; and consists of certain iinprovements in the construction of copy-holders employed for the above purpose, which will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order that others maybetter understand the nature and purpose of saidinvention, I will now proceed to describe it more in detail.

In the drawings, A represents a flat, metal plate, turned up at right-angles, at the ends, A A', to form bearings for the ends of the parallel rolls B B', said ends A being each provided with suitable openings a a to receive the turned-down ends b of said rolls, B B. The top roll, B, consists of a plain rod, and the bottom roll, B', of a rod having a rubber or other elastic tube or coating, O, iitted thereon; over its central portion, and preferably extending to Vwithin a short distance of its ends, as is shown in the drawings. The bottom roll is also provided with Serial No. 481.824. (No model.)

a suitable head c,'at the end, whereby it may be turned. A flat spring, D, is secured to the top of plate A at each end just inside of the upturned ends A', and said springs are adapted to bear against the bottom roll, B', to hold it'up against the top roll B, and thus exert a pressure between the two rolls to hold copy placed therein,as usual. The purpose of the cushioned covering C being to cause sufficient friction upon said copy to carry it forward when the bottom roll is turned, as aforesaid. The top roll is, in this instance, loose in the end slots or openings in plate A, being held in its normal position in the upper ends of said openings by the upward pressure of the bottom roll and its end-supporting springs. By this construction it is obvious that a constant, yielding pressure is maintained for holding and tracing any thickness of copy, from a single sheet to an ordinary, stenographers notebook, and said construction, it will also be apparent, is very simple, strong and durable, inexpensive not liable to getout of repair in use, and the tension does not depend upon the position of the holder.

By mounting the device on a swivel-arm, as indicated in Figs. l and 2, it may be used either right or left-handed, at will, by simply unscrewing the set-screw d, swinging the holder around as desired, and fastening it in its adj usted position. The holder being made alike on both sides, admits of said reversible adjustment; a feature not embodied in any similar device employed for this purpose, of which I am aware. For the above reason the form shown in Fig. 4 may also be used either way, by turning the whole device around, so as to bring the head c to the right or left of the user, as desired.

When applied to use for holding copy in type-setting, I mount the holder on an arm A2, preferably secured rigidly thereto, and having a fork-shaped, outer end, A3 adapted to engage with one of the division partitions of the printers case E, or any other stationary, adjacent part. I, of course, do not limit myself to making said forked or holding end of any special shape, the form shown serving as an illustration only, of one way of coust-ructing the same for the above purpose.

I am aware that a device for holding copy is not broadly new, and therefore limit my invention to substantially the construction herein set forth.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a copy holder the plate A adapted to be fastened to a suitable support and having the ends A A thereof bent at right angles to the body and each of said ends provided with an oblong, vertical opening a, considerably longer than the combined diameters of the hubs of rolls B B; the plain roll B Whose hubs iit in the outer ends of said oblong openings a; the roll B' arranged between roll B and plate A with its hubs also in the oblong openings, and provided at one end with a thumb-screw c whereby it maybe turned, and also having an elastic cover C, and the springs D D arranged between the outer ends of roll B and plate A inside of its end bearings A A', whereby a yielding pressure may be iinparted against the inner roll B toward the outer roll B, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

. EDGAR KELSEY.

Vitnesses:

ALBERT A. BARKER, WALTER B. NOURSE. 

